crbnw00ts

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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
When stuff like this makes the front page on a regular basis, it's already a joke site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5735421
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
> The way the thing is filmed with the smiley face and lighting up eyes, I could easily imagine a sci-fi horror film being based around it. :) Like this? http://i.imgur.com/W1s9crO.jpg In all seriousness, I feel it is on
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
This is the correct answer. The manager's job is to manage the people , not the project. That's what a tech leads and PMs are for. A good people manager works to keep their employees comfortable, aims to avoid conflicts (and reso
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
That is incorrect. There are also metrics regarding "microevents", which are points in time during which brainwaves momentarily exhibit the characteristics of the first stages of sleep. This is effectively a measure of how often t
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
What's sad is that it wasn't so long ago we were treated to breathless articles regarding the software that was used as part of the President's re-election campaign, which apparently was well-tested and well-engineered enough
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. For how many years were people dismissed as nutjobs and "conspiracy theorists" when they talked about NSA spying? Now we know it was all true. Would you like to make a bet
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
There sure are a lot of hard-coded numbers in that codebase. In many cases it's easy to figure out where the numbers came from, but in others, it's nearly inscrutable without a named constant or a comment or something . Here&#x27
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
Slight correction: the government went after them for anti-solicitation agreements[1], and then they were sued for salary-fixing by former employees[2]. [1] http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/September/10
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
And then of course once they acquire those toys and have them sitting around for a while, they start to get itchy for an excuse to "use" them.
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
Yes, that guy was fake, but the protestors blocking the bus and preventing it from leaving were real.
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
> Who are "the right people"? Who gets to dictate who can and cannot live in a city? Not that I agree with the guy in the video in any way, but I 100% •guarantee* the protestors (and the writers at the Guardian for that matter)
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
Well, there's this company: http://generalfusion.com VC-backed, too!
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasers_and_aviation_safety
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
It's long past time for Facebook to simply stop using the words "private" and "delete" on any of their pages, because they obviously don't mean it whenever they use them.
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
I'm glad this is getting attention, however it occurred to me something important has been lost in the whole shuffle: the integration of Google+ and corporate Google Apps accounts. Many companies pay for the corporate Google Apps servi
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
I think it's more like "piracy is legal if you do it on a large enough scale". If some snot-nosed teenager scanned a book and posted it on the web, the court would squash him like an insect. But a multi-billion-dollar company
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
If true, that helps explain how they got their $3.5 billion valuation recently. This also further goes to show: if you want Facebook's attention, do something with photos.
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
That's fine for some projects, but not every project follows that flow. One example: ompanies using GitHub Enterprise internally generally don't make every regular contributor to a project have their own fork (or at least they sho
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
You can already do this with git config, but unfortunately it's a giant hammer that affects the entire repo at once. It is of course possible to write a post-receive hook that denies non-fastforward pushes to specific branches, but rea
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
I don't think you can blame the "genius" engineers. These seem rather more like business decisions. As soon as Google started talking about the total number of Google+ accounts as though they were in competition with Facebook
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
Bike safety starts with the rider. One of the scariest experiences I ever had while driving a car was nearly hitting a cyclist as I was pulling out of a parking lot. He was riding at night with no lights or reflectors visible. Oh, and he wa
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
And yet they were at one time the low-volume underdog. People scoffed at them when they first started making iPods and again later with iPhones (even though there were fewer doubters by the time the iPhone came to be, there were still some)
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
That doesn't sound like being captious (to use the article's term), that sounds more like asking the "Five Whys": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys which is almost always a good thing.
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
I called it recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6564469 and of course the reaction was denial & vitriol. It bears repeating: the world's governments can be divided into exactly two groups -- those that a
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
A quick list of gripes is a pretty unconvincing argument that hotels are "doomed". There is no guarantee that any of those things would be better at an AirBnB. Likewise, a corresponding list of gripes could be assembled for AirBnB
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
You must be kidding! This is "disruption" we're talking about, after all. That means all precautions, regulations, contingencies, licensing, and everything else are out the window , full stop. What are you, some kind of last
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/investing/getting-initial-pu... I thought this was common knowledge?
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
An obvious-in-hindsight bit of speculation is that growth has caused them to resort to hiring those former taxi drivers which customers like me were trying to get away from in the first place.
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
> All of Uber's old school power users have gotten used to Uber and simply expect our service as a baseline at this point. What I mean is that as you have gotten used to Uber, your expectations of basic fundamental service have rise
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
The sad part is that there are people who insist that one can hear audience members laughing at that moment in recordings of the speech. Nope, just cheering. People hear what they want to hear.

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